Checkpoint

The United Future leader, Peter Dunne, has been stripped of another job at Parliament, losing his position on the high-powered Intelligence and Security Committee. Audio

Keith Woodford, a professor of agribusiness at Lincoln University, has been listening to that and he joins us. Audio

The Ministry for Primary Industries says the worst drought in 70-years has knocked one-point-three-billion-dollars off export revenues for this financial year. Audio

An expert in environmental sciences says the government's playing with fire by not putting an immediate stop to the commercial long-fin eel fishing; This year's winner of the Maori excellence in sheep… Read more Audio

The Government's plan for agreements to tackle housing shortages has been criticised as too simplistic, and unlikely to deliver truly affordable homes. Audio

Listening to that is the Green Party co-leader Russel Norman - he's calling on the Government here to tell the public if it has access to information about New Zealanders that it got from America's… Read more Audio

An update from the team at RNZ Sport. Audio

Heavily armed gunmen have launched an attack close to the main airport in the Afghan capital Kabul. Audio

News from the business sector including a market report. Audio

The police in Northland have no leads as to why a man was pulled over and had bleach poured into his eyes while being held at knife point in a roadside attack this morning. Audio

The police have revealed the man shot dead by an officer in New Plymouth on the weekend was tasered more than once and shot twice. Audio

Listening to that, our parliamentary chief reporter, Jane Patterson. Audio